Protest 
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5/15/2022
Excerpt: Inside the Gwangju Uprising, a Key Moment for South Korean Democracy
by Gwangju Democratization Movement Commemoration Committee
Government forces sprung into action to violently suppress a pro-democracy protest of students and workers in Gwangju, South Korea on May 18, 1980.
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SOURCE: In These Times
5/3/2022
Protest Can – And Should – Influence the Supreme Court
by Eric Stoner
Direct action is the only way to push the court's majority more into line with the will of the majority of the public.
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SOURCE: Salon
5/1/2022
How Protesters Pushed Jimmy Carter to Support Disability Rights
by Matthew Rozsa
While Carter campaigned on pledges to support the demands of the disabled for fuller participation in American society, he didn't fulfill those problems without a strong push from protesters in the movement.
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SOURCE: Dissent
4/27/2022
The Fatal Siloing of Abortion Advocacy
by Meaghan Winter
It was a strategic mistake for abortion rights advocates to emphasize the right to individual choice instead of the vast issues of economic justice, workforce quality, educational equity and personal safety that are impacted by whether women can control their own reproduction.
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SOURCE: NBCUniversal
4/14/2022
Video: When a Protester Hit Anita Bryant with a Cream Pie in 1977
"Thus always to bigots" declared the Des Moines, Iowa protester who greeted Anita Bryant's anti-gay roadshow with a pie to the face.
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SOURCE: Vox
4/2/2022
A Bizarre War on Protest By Republican Judges
"If protest leaders can be hauled into court — and potentially forced to pay out of their own pockets — for the actions of a single protest attendee, then no sensible person will organize a protest."
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SOURCE: Politico
2/26/2022
The History of Tying Up Traffic for Protest
by David Greenberg
More militant leaders in the Black freedom movement advocated obstructing traffic on a large scale as an expanded form of nonviolent direct action; the tensions these plans provoked in the movement show that there are seldom clear principles for which movement tactics are legitimate, outside of our opinions of their goals.
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SOURCE: Editorial Board
2/17/2022
The Ottawa "Freedom Convoy" Takes Inspiration from a Biblical Account of a Divine Massacre
by Thomas Lecaque
The Ottawa truck protests featured a contingent of "Jericho Marchers" who are increasingly prominent on the Christian far right.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
2/16/2022
When Eartha Kitt Disrupted the Ladies Who Lunch
In 1968, real life imitated "Batman" as the Catwoman actress broke the veneer of politeness at a luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson to denounce the war against Vietnam. But while Catwoman always got away, Kitt's career was destroyed for a decade.
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SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
2/16/2022
The Paranoid Style Comes to Canadian Politics
by Eric Merkley
Canadian politics, until recently, seemed free of the kind of extreme sorting taking place in other democracies, where partisan affiliation, cultural values, and religious or ethnic identity all align closely. The Ottawa protests show cracks in the nation's liberal order that the far right is trying to exploit, says a political scientist.
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SOURCE: YouTube
2/7/2022
Is "Cancel Culture" an Existential Threat to America or a Moral Panic?
by Michael Hobbes
Podcaster and moral panic debunker Michael Hobbes asks what's really happening with the current "cancel culture" uproar.
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SOURCE: The Cut
1/31/2022
The Return of the Mass Protest
by Elizabeth Hinton
Although mass protests are far more peaceful than they were in the 1960s, reviving nonviolent direct action tactics associated with MLK, the police response to them has been more heavily armed and violent.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/18/2022
Student Protests over COVID Policy (and Adults Ignoring Them) is Part of a Long Tradition
by Jack Hodgson
"Their message: Education needs to be delivered in cooperation with young people. They have a right to advocate for their own welfare, feel safe in school and receive teaching, not just supervision."
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1/5/2022
Bristol Protesters Cleared of Toppling Edward Colston Statue
"In a 10-day trial at Bristol crown court, the four defendants did not contest their actions on 7 June 2020 but sought to argue they were justified, because the statue was so offensive."
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SOURCE: DCist
12/30/2021
Mosaic Theater Is Collecting H Street Residents’ Protest Stories And Turning Them Into Plays
“We want to be a place where the stories of our community are uplifted and celebrated and given the spotlight — particularly because so many of those residents are African Americans who have seen so much change happen without their input,” says Reginald Douglas, Mosaic’s new artistic director.
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SOURCE: The Nation
11/13/2021
Direct Action: The Practical Politics of Protest
by Erin Pineda
"Protesters may be a loud minority of citizens, a set of especially motivated and impassioned individuals who are in many ways not representative of the general public. But the silent majority of voters are not as disconnected from—or dismissive of—protest as many assume."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/17/2021
Law Enforcement Has Long Practiced Double Standards for Activists
by Denise Lynn
Nobody should be shocked that the FBI has aggressively surveilled Black Lives Matter organizers while deciding that the online organizing of the January 6 attack on the Capitol was protected speech; this double standard has characterized law enforcement's approach to racial justice protest.
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11/15/2021
Historians on the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial
As Kyle Rittenhouse's trial advances to jury deliberation, historians weigh in.
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SOURCE: Resist Programming
10/17/2021
Howard Cosell Rejects the Backlash to 1968 Olympics Protest
In the face of public backlash and USOC punishment, Howard Cosell defended the protests of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, perhaps more directly than any sports media figure would dare do today.
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8/22/2021
The View from the New York City Hiroshima Peace Vigil
by Michael McQuillan
The march featured the testimony of antinuclear activists and rekindled a demand for New York's city council to divest the city budget from contractors who make nuclear weapons, but too much of the public seems willing to ignore the nuclear threat.
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